Pretty permalinks to subdomains rewrite HELP!

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I’m on a shared server so I cannot create wildcard subdomains but as I won’t be requiring a kajillion subdomains, I don’t mind entering each subdomain manually into the htaccess ??

Surely someone has even a little snippet of info? ??

Ok, well so far I have my host set up so that the subdomain points to the WordPress web directory i.e. home/user/mydomain.org.nz/wordpress
The htaccess within that directory looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?[^.]+\.test\.mydomain\.org\.nz.*$
RewriteRule (.*) https://mydomain.org.nz/wordpress/services/test/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

However that does not work. I got that code from a basic ‘how to’ of a rewrite a subdomain to a directory. So far I’m still at a loss as to how to get this damn thing to work and swearing at it isn’t working either…

WordPress recommends this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

in the root of your WordPress directory (same location as wp-config.php)

Also, ask your host about the first if statement above. The mode rewrite modules must be installed and running.

Add this to your themes header.php file to test if permalinks are on:

<?php if ( get_option('permalink_structure') != '' ) { echo 'permalinks enabled'; } ?>

If on, the text “permalinks enabled” will appear in the header of that page in your browser that has been refreshed for that page/site.

Yes, that’s what is in the htaccess by default. But the problem isn’t with getting permaliks to work – pretty permalinks work just fine. The issue is with getting a subdomain to point to a wordpress permalink URL e.g. typing in test.domain.org.nz will take you to domain.org.nz/wordpress/services/test

Typically, with most good web hosts anyway, a sub-domain is mapped using an record in the DNS setup to point to the folder associated with the sub-domain…this is web host specific, and a topic to discuss with the folks who work with domains at your web host. GoDaddy has a help page on this, of course, and again, this is web host specific.

I have the DNS settings correctly pointing to the right directory. I can’t however point the subdomain to the permalink as it’s not an actual directory.